Thursday, November 9, 2023

Croatian Day in the Life

 

Ograde Farm with all of us

We spent our day at a family agritourist farm named Ograde. Our hostess was Davorka with her husband Vjeran, son Maurizio, and two dogs. We wandered the farm picking our greens for salad and sunshade mushrooms for our pasta. 

Collecting our salad

The farm is a mixture of forest, small vegetable plots, and elliptical shaped sheep corals lined with dry wall stone fences. There are foxes and wild boar in the area. They have a few animals now, a horse and chickens, they are adding pigs in the spring. 

Making Pasta

We made our own pasta, rolling the dough over a stick to create small tubular pasta. Our lunch started with a delicious vegetable soup. We used the pasta with two different sauces for our main course with chicken and the mushrooms. Then we cut up another sweet dough and shaped it for dessert. A relaxing day in the countryside.

Salad and Pasta
Some of the group climbed the church tower on our return to Rovinj with a grand view of the town.
Rovinj from the bell tower




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